As the Senior Director, Program & Science, Dr. Mistry is responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and evaluation of AcademyHealth’s Center for Health Services Research (HSR) Acceleration and serving in a primary leadership role in setting the vision for AH’s extramural portfolio, ensuring not only operational and scientific excellence but also continued alignment with the needs of the broader HSR ecosystem.
Prior to joining AcademyHealth, Dr. Mistry served as the Deputy Executive Officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this role, she leads operational and strategic planning efforts to support programmatic initiatives within OASH and across HHS. Additionally, Dr. Mistry spent more than a decade at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) at HHS, serving in multiple scientific and leadership roles, including Associate Director for the Office of Extramural Research, Education and Priority Populations and the Agency Lead & Senior Advisor for Maternal Child Health and Health Equity.
She simultaneously oversaw the Agency's core functions related to the extramural research program, priority populations research, and development and administration of health services research and learning health system training programs and also focused on directing maternal and child health quality, safety and implementation science focused programs in collaboration with other HHS and external partners, including the Pediatric Quality Measures Program with CMS and the AHRQ’s Safety Program for Perinatal Care with CDC and HRSA.
Prior to coming to AHRQ, Dr. Mistry served as the Program Director for the Healthy Steps for Young Children National Evaluation at Johns Hopkins, which focused on examining innovative practice-based models for improving quality of care and child outcomes. Formerly, she has led initiatives at the state-level focused on improving care for priority populations, including establishing the Texas PRAMS program and evaluating the Title V and Medicaid programs for the Texas Department of Health. This complemented her experience at the local level where she directed services at the Prince Georges Volunteer Health Clinic in Maryland.
Dr. Mistry completed her NRSA post-doctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She received a PhD from the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health and an MPH from the Department of Health Policy and Management, both from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition to her role at AcademyHealth, she is Part-Time Adjunct Faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of General Pediatrics, where she has mentored post-doctoral fellows and conducted research for over a decade.